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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Lockheed Martin F-35 Flew 10% of Planned 2009 Tests

F-35 Lightning IILockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 jet flew only about 10 percent of its planned test flights last year because of delays in delivering aircraft.

Sixteen of 168 planned flights were completed in fiscal 2009, the second year of flight testing, according to Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of weapons testing.

The program calls for 5,000 sorties to prove the aircraft’s flying capabilities, electronics and software.

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